Mission Statement

AIJSS aims to advance contemporary research on Asian social science topics in the fields of education, innovative technologies, infrastructure, international finance and micro-finance, the environment, sustainability, corporate social responsibility, business and management, as well as other fields deemed interesting to the editors and readers alike. Quantitative and qualitative studies are welcome. AIJSS is a peer–reviewed open access journal published quarterly (January, April, July, and October).

Our publication mission for 2018 is to focus on the ‘International’ in the journal’s name. Papers showing broad regional scope are highly recommended. Researchers (both apprentice and seasoned), are encouraged to submit their empirical, conceptual, applied papers, or case studies for publication to Ms. Montana at msmontanakmitl@gmail.com .

The main aim of this research is to design a meteorological dictionary for Thai people using an innovative approach of corpus lexicography. The survey of the user needs analysis were used to elicit information about their reading materials and a weather forecast corpus (WFC) was thus compiled. The corpus comprises of 555,818 words (tokens). The samples were weather forecasting texts which were divided into 2 main types: 1) weather forecasts and 2) meteorological documents. All samples were collected and scanned. The concordance software “Wordsmith Tools” was used to compute the frequency of running words and word types, including type/token ratio. Then the word frequency list was classified into general, academic, and technical vocabularies. Word classes, collocations, compound nouns and abbreviations were analyzed. According to statistical analysis, the total word types in the WFC were 13,172 and the types and tokens ratio was 2.37 or 1:29. The results revealed that the group of general vocabularies was the highest frequency in the corpus. The open classes and closed classes were both found in the corpus. Some general words were found to be used as technical vocabularies. Many multi-word terms are created from the combination of general, academic and others vocabularies. There were 6 types of abbreviation: clippings, initials, acronyms, contractions, substitutions, and symbols. These corpus findings in terms of word frequencies, word combination and typical usage were used to develop sample entries for the proposed bilingual dictionary meteorology. This study provides insights into the language of weather forecast. It could be used as a guideline to design a meteorological dictionary and teach English for meteorological students, meteorologists and meteorological officers at the Thai Meteorological Department, as well as lexicographers, and those who are interested in meteorology.

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Started 6 December 2017

ISSN 2539-6102

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